On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 10:55, Miark wrote: > I got cable installed today. The cable modem is hooked up to > a Win98 laptop that's connected to my network with a PCMCIA > ethernet card. The laptop is acting as a gateway machine > running WinRoute Pro. > > When I download from my Linux box, everything is great at > first (1500 Kbits/sec!!), but after a few minutes, the > network connection dies. > > When I swing to the laptop and open IE, Google comes up > instantly. When I ping the laptop from my Linux box, it > comes back fine. But I can't restore the connection without > rebooting the laptop. > > What do y'all think the problem is here? (Yes, I know--I'm > using a Win laptop--but I can't help that at the moment.) > > Miark > Miark,
The only experience I have with cable may not be directly relevant to yours, but in case it helps... The cable connection I set up for a client required a login process to kick things off and then re-login whenever the heartbeat timed out. To make this work from multiple clients on the LAN side, I needed to run squid on the linux machine I was using as a gateway and have the client machines connect via that proxy. This makes the cable network see a single client, although there are multiple users behind it. Could the way you are running it be either - bypassing the login/keep-alive process so that when the connection times out it doesn't get re-made, or - result in the the linux machine being seen as a second user - without a valid login. I remember one guy on this list who I helped to get his cable running, who would start the connection from his W$ machine, then fire up linux and have the connection survive for a few minutes then die. That was because of this login issue. As I said, may not be relevant to your case. Good luck Brian
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